2.
TO BE DONE WITH (AN)ORGONOMISTS

Introductory Note

Between 1996 and 2001, we had several rounds of email correspondence with
Dr. James DeMeo, the founder of the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory,
Inc.

Aware of Dr. DeMeo's long-standing historical interest in the orgone motor
(discovered and developed by Dr. Wilhelm Reich), in the summer of 2001 we
invited Dr. DeMeo to visit our laboratory and - under strict conditions of
confidential non-disclosure - provided him with a series of demonstrations of
our patented PAGD technology and improvements to it , as well as of a number of
the new aether technologies developed by us. Included in these
was the first precise, functioning demonstration since Reich's death
of an embodiment of the Orgone Motor - precisely as
Reich described it - as well as our novel improvement, referred to as the Aether
Motor, developed at one of our laboratories.

In July, before the aetherometry.com web pages were launched, we further
provided Dr. DeMeo with advance confidential access to the materials intended for
publication on the website.

Although, as our archives make clear, our comprehensive assessment of the
scientific and intellectual poverty rampant in the field of (An)orgonomy did not
invite further contact with those who go by the name 'Reichians' or 'orgonomists',
it struck us as an interesting experiment, and one well worth conducting, to
attempt to involve at least one of the known ostensive followers of the late Dr.
Wilhelm Reich, one with a reputation for more open thought - to see if it were
possible to elicit a modicum of curiosity regarding the extraordinary advances in
physical theory which could be brought about if Dr. Reich's work in basic
Physics were to be taken up seriously and pursued by biophysicists. While initially we
hoped we would find a reason to modulate our conviction that the Reichians of today
are not only devoid of curiosity but, somehow, viscerally repelled by anything
even vaguely resembling scientific methodology - we were, as it turned
out - and sadly so - obliged to revalidate our initial evaluation.

The result of this relationship, which developed through email correspondence,
culminated in Dr. DeMeo presenting us with one of the most astonishing
documents we have ever received - purportedly addressing our work. Admittedly
having a poor grasp of physics, biology and mathematics, Dr. DeMeo
nonetheless took it upon himself to produce a chaotic 12-page so-called
'constructive critique' of monographs AS2-01 through AS2-09
of Experimental Aetherometry; a document which - while offering nothing in the way of either
construction or critique - is, to our minds, a most instructive study of how any will
to undertake understanding on the part of 'believers' is scrupulously exorcised in
favor of the perpetuation of a superstitious, mystical belief system. It becomes
quite evident, as one reads through this material, that Dr. DeMeo not only failed
entirely to follow the physics and mathematics of the aetherometric arguments
and proofs (a failure already evident in preceding email exchanges), but set about to
distort both their content and, as well, the content of the physics tentatively set
out by Wilhem Reich in his later years. The clear intent of his 'critique' was to
obfuscate both bodies of work in favour of a perpetuation of the established,
comfortable churches of 'orgonomy' that have done so much to poison the waters
for serious inquiry in this critical field of investigation. Since we declined -
despite Dr. DeMeo's demands - to provide in our monographs bogus acknowledgements
to Reichians for work which was never carried out by them, we
became branded, ipso facto, as enemies of Reichianism. When asked on
several occasions to provide us with references to the writings of those he
was insisting on being cited, Dr. DeMeo was, of course, unable to supply them - and
resorted instead to such absurd speculations as: Reich himself had undoubtedly carried
out the Correas' novel experiments - but had just never bothered to report them!! Since
we declined to give credit where it was not, in our view, due, he decided that our work
was to be torpedoed by the Reichian 'community' at large. And this, he
apprised us, he intended to bring about. While we do not consider the hopelessly
confused writings of Dr. DeMeo in any way a threat to the integrity of our writings,
we present the archive of the events as a study of what Reich would have
designated the 'emotional plague' at work - it is in the actions of 'decent' people
that one finds the fearful closure of the religious mind.

To us, these events throw an extraordinarily curious light on the frenetic missives
which emanate from Dr. DeMeo's organization, denouncing committed fanatics
who know only how to destroy what they envy and perceive as a threat to their
specific sect.

It was not our intention to make any of this material public. However, following
the receipt of communications from Dr. DeMeo that he did already, and intended
to continue to, misrepresent the content of our ABRI publications, and
which furthermore also indicated that he had conveyed confidential information regarding
the demonstrations of our technology which we provided to him under non-disclosure
conditions, to persons to this day unidentified to us (though it is not too
difficult to surmise their identities), raising the prospect of further misrepresentation
of our work, we have decided to publish here both the pertinent
email archives concerned with these events and our extensive response to
DeMeo's insidious so-called 'critique'.